Now that the honeymoon period is over, it's time for some real talk. As epic as the gameplay is, if this wasn't Tekken itself I would probably be incredibly furious over a lot of things.
-Less offline modes than previous Tekkens. No Survival mode, no team battle (personal favorite), ridiculous arcade battle. Story mode quality reduced overall, less scenes, less actor dialogue, less a lot.
-Move lists not containing frame data. It's 2017.
-Vast reduction in customization from T6 and TTT2. Inexcusable. Customs went from godlike and unique, to almost all the outfits being generic full roster outfits. Downsized items (no more unique gloves, boots, etc). Hair custom used to be epic, now it's trash. Good pieces of cloths that characters had in TTT2 and even T6 are now gone, and replaced by nothing. But they found a way to add even more stupid pieces like extra fish.
-Online launched broken. No wonder Harada was so quiet about online pre-release.
-Over 7 frames of offline input lag, more online by default.
-Fail online modes. Only 3, and 2 function stupidly. In Tournament mode if the host leaves the entire tourney ends instead of host migration. Same thing in player match lobbies. Private matches cannot revenge match so you have to go all the way out each match and reselect, but random player quick match can. Fail.
-2 years of arcade testing and play, yet there's still infinites, silly glitches and such on release.
-The pollution of footsie play with armored focus attacks and armored supers.
-Tailspin is a remade bound advertised as an innovative change.
-Dubious omissions of heavy fan base characters like Lei and Julia.
For a game that took an infinity to launch I can't pretend like this is ok. All and all, if I'm being completely honest, this launch has made me appreciate what the NRS team has done with Inj2, and how they have progressed each game. I believe Tekken has regressed as a whole, and only survives that regression because the gameplay at it's core is so amazing that it has longevity if you can simply play people, and there is a loyal fan base behind the game. It may be time for Harada to go and get some fresh blood in there. The Vince McMahon of the scene.
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were hard to pull off. Dragon uppercut i could barely get half the time and when i did i didn't do anything different. Jumping Mid & Low kick i could do easily. Spinning Demon & SD uppercut i did most of the time. I just find it weird that all these moves have the same inputs except for the last button but they have varying degrees of difficulty.
